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title: What would happen if no one checked where diamonds came from? — Gemstones and precious metals · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if no one checked where diamonds came from? Test 8 of lesson 51 «Gemstones and precious metals» of the geography course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 8 · Gemstones and precious metals

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What would happen if no one checked where diamonds came from?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** one, diamonds · **What happens:** happen, check, come

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This is test 8 of lesson 51 «Gemstones and precious metals» of the geography course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/geography/51-gemstones-and-precious-metals/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:51-gemstones-and-precious-metals:t8:1
# text = What would happen if no one checked where diamonds came from?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	checked	check	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
8	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	10	advmod	_	_
9	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **check** *a condition, not said to happen* | participle | no one |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come** | past | diamonds |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Diamonds would slowly turn back into black carbon dust

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:51-gemstones-and-precious-metals:t8:o1:1
# text = Diamonds would slowly turn back into black carbon dust
1	Diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	carbon	carbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn back** | would | Diamonds |  |  | black carbon dust |  | slowly *property* | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Diamonds mined to pay for wars could be sold freely

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:51-gemstones-and-precious-metals:t8:o2:1
# text = Diamonds mined to pay for wars could be sold freely
1	Diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	mined	mine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	wars	war	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	sold	sell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
10	freely	freely	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mine** | past | Diamonds |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pay** | to-infinitive | Diamonds *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sell** | could · passive |  | wars |  |  |  | freely *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Diamonds would stop being hard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:51-gemstones-and-precious-metals:t8:o3:1
# text = Diamonds would stop being hard
1	Diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	cop	_	_
5	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | would | Diamonds |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | gerund | Diamonds *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Diamonds would all become cheap glass

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:51-gemstones-and-precious-metals:t8:o4:1
# text = Diamonds would all become cheap glass
1	Diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	all	all	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	cheap	cheap	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | would | Diamonds | cheap glass |  |  |  | all *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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